"According to Edward L. Bader this plant was constructed in 1891-92 by Francis Gurney and Alfred I. du Pont; however, date is given as 1898 in Allan J. Henry, ed., Life of Alexis I. du Pont, II, p. 34. It was a two-story frame building with three...

"Francis Gurney du Pont is said to have been the one who prevailed upon General Henry du Font to build a steam plant in the 1880's. It was built primarily for the purpose of supplying power to the mills in time of low water, but was also part of...

DuPont's Textile Fibers Department's Orlon acrylic fiber manufacturing facilities are shown in this aerial view of the May plant located at Camden, South Carolina. In the foreground is the large plant which makes Orlon fiber in staple form and the...

At this plant near Victoria, Texas, the DuPont produces nylon intermediates, polyethylene and ammonia in open type buildings. The plant was built in 1951 and has expended several times. Its initial product was adiponitrile, a nylon intermediates....

Manufacturing operations at DuPont's Victoria, Texas plant take place in outdoor buildings such as these. The plant makes adiponitrile from butadiene, a petroleum product. The plant's entire output is shipped to the company's big Sabine River...

In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...

Emory F. Ridlon, plant managers, points out features of the DuPont's new plant to members of newly appointed plant staff. Left to right are: Lloyd E. Horning, accounting superintendant, William C. Eddy Jr., manufacturing superintendent, Mr. Ridlon;...

Pipelines and towering adiponitrile process units at Niagara Falls Plant dramatize the $25,000,000 which has been invested over the past two decades in new processes, new buildings and plant alterations. Adiponitrile is a nylon intermediate made...

Pipelines and towering adiponitrile process units at Niagara Falls Plant dramatize the $25,000,000 which has been invested over the past two decades in new processes, new buildings and plant alterations. Adiponitrile is a nylon intermediate made...